WWW,
I would have thought it better to train during a downturn? I mean if you are as you said night and day away from being a pilot, then by the time you finish the training, you could be what, maybe dawn?
This is exactly my point, I have spent my years up London, doing the corporate thing, I can very easily go back to it, do I want to? NO, does any wannabe want to? NO, but what do you do? listen to the gloom and doom which even my gf's Dad listened to 25 years ago, or do you bite the bullit and go for it?
As said in a previous post, in 10 years time I could have the most expensive piece of paper I will ever own, or I could be a SFO, you really never know.